Here are my thoughts about that...
Elizabeth Warren by the numbers……
1.) "There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own.
Nobody…
You built a factory out there - good for you.
But I want to be clear.
You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for.
Really? Last time I checked we – company owners large & small - paid road excise taxes…state taxes…city taxes, gas taxes….etc… that are supposed to fund this construction….. We also pay freight costs for all goods coming and going on those same roads…..taken care of by our – all of our tax money.
(Except, of course for the approx. 49% who have no skin in the game but take/get the most….)
2.) You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate.
Really? We pay property taxes….sometimes on both our homes and business locations. These are “supposed” to be utilized to educate our children…thus… our future “employees”.
Nobody out there paid for our college educations used to perhaps create this idea and/or business we now fight to keep alive……
3.) You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.
Once again, those pesky property taxes…state taxes…never mind fees etc. we all pay…
Sometimes our own security in addition to our civic responsibilities……
And….again sometimes twice because of a business location.
4.) You didn't have to worry that marauding bands (Huh?!) would come and seize everything at your factory and hire someone to protect against this because of the work the rest of us did.
What in the name of GOD – ( yes, I have no problem including the word GOD in my platform ) …are you talking about?
We pay State, Federal, Corporate, Payroll Sales taxes…fees…permits…..yada yada each DAY, week – month, year that is supposed to fund all of this….
5.) Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, God Bless! Keep a Big Hunk of it. (Why thanks….) But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along."
The “next kid” coming along can take the same risk….lose the same money, sign onto the same financial risks, work the same insane hours, lose countless hours of sleep with worry that the rest of us all did to CREATE our businesses…
To PROVIDE jobs for our employees and help pay taxes to the government that couldn’t survive a DAY without all of us because it doesn’t have a vehicle for generating ANY money of it’s own…
NONE without “We the People”……
So,YES, we DID build this…..
We will decide who we pass what meager profits along to…
.WE WILL DECIDE!
Elizabeth recently said this at the DNC Convention….
6.) "Corporations are not people. People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they cry, they dance. They live, they love, and they die. And that matters, because we don't run this country for corporations, we run it for people."
Really….we may only be a small “Corporation”…but the last time I checked it was populated by caring, loving PEOPLE.
PEOPLE with family’s…with children, with all the normal worries we all have each day in this GAWD AWFUL economy.
The last time I checked…. I am “people” too…….I just happen to own a Corporation. Most of us out here are small….10 +- people Corporations…..
We live, we have hearts that break, we laugh, we dance, we get sick, we die…..just like you…..
But how would she ever know this? You would have to actually start a corporation to understand and possibly earn the right to pontificate and lecture the rest of us… Maybe then we’d listen to you…..
Nah……………
And finally… We do NOT live in a vacuum.
We don’t create a business and miraculously shed all the other normal civic and financial responsibilities everyone has……
They forget that even though we may own a business…we’re also card carrying members of “WE THE PEOPLE”….and we VOTE!
Perry called the notion that businesses are built by individual initiative “a myth,” noting a broad liberal talking point about how one’s success is “supplemented” by “taxpayers who pay for schools, roads, laws and institutions that make business possible.” Perry went on to say entrepreneurs who get upset with the government just “may not understand” how important the government is for their success.
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